PARROTS

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realm bed batman n:
hey if yam teach yew parrot he say 'parrot' it' s probably as muse as
yew get he owning a
My brather tells a story went his ' s parrot, that everywhe when
came he the muse would say “ydu' re a bird!" be it " the bird would repeat
the phrase back, he big. Until GHQ day my brather was aliens in the muse
with it and heard it say, very quietly, "i' m a bird." My dropped
a plate.

I imagined it being scary.
A dark, cold night, that guy and the bird. A feeling of eeriness is in the air, as the parrot sits there, unblinking, watching him as he prepares his meal. As he readies to retrieve his food from the oven, plate in hand, he looks at the bird, realising only now it has watched him this whole time. A sudden sense of dread washes over him like the water of a shower. And as each of them looks the other in the eye, one in fear, the other filled with malice, it whispers through the cold darkness..."I'm a bird..."

Alex the Parrot had an intelligence near that of a five year old human. It's not that hard to think that while over hearing people talk it would pick up the connection between people saying you're and people stating I am.